A Quote by Bill Vaughan

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

Bill Vaughan

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Boredom Cause Effect History Large Large Scale Main Revolutions Scale Underestimated

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Bill Vaughan
American - Journalist
October 8, 1915 - February 25, 1977

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Swami Vivekananda

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Andy Goldsworthy

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

William James

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Don DeLillo

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

John Buchan

Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.

Frederic Dan Huntington

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Dan Shechtman

And I would say that the main thing that I faced as a female in this industry was being underestimated. But being underestimated isn't always a bad thing. It's nice to get out there and blow people's minds when they think you're not gonna be any good.

Nita Strauss

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Nathaniel Branden

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Alphonse de Lamartine

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...